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Welcome to the FCS South Professional Development Wiki!

Turn-Around Schools:
TurnAround Blog
Turning Around Chronically Low-Performing Schools: What Works Clearinghouse
Boston Public Schools: Acceleration Agenda
Mass Insight: Research Overview
Turning Around the Nation's Lowest-Performing Schools
Turnaround Schools: Resources
Turnaround Teacher Selection Toolkit
Turning Around a High-Poverty School District: Learning from Sanger Unified's Success
Lessons from a Public School Turnaround

School Culture:
Shaping School Culture: Share the secrets for success of principals in seven high-achieving, high-poverty urban middle level schools
Inside the Black Box of High-Performing High-Poverty Schools
"Level Five Culture" in High-Achieving, High-Poverty Schools
The Intersection Between Common Core and School Culture
Project ASSIST School Culture Activities
The Center for Improving School Culture
Raising Expectations - Module 3

High-Poverty, High-Performing Schools:
Success Despite Socio-Economics: A Case Study of a High Achieving, High Poverty School
Turning High-Poverty Schools into High-Performing Schools
The High-Performing, High-Poverty Schools Initiative

Common Core:
10 Must-See Common Core Resources
Testing Group Wrestles With 'College Readiness' Meaning
Cybraryman's Internet Catalogue: Common Core Resources
Resources for Understanding the Common Core State Standards

Professional Learning Opportunities:
Harvard Graduate School of Education: School Turnaround Leaders Program (2013)

Team Building:
Atlanta Challenge Team Building Events for Non-Profit Groups and Organizations

Effective Coaching:
Instructional Coaching
Instructional Coaching: Key Themes from the Literature
Educational Leadership: Coaching: The New Leadership Skill: The Year We Learned to Collaborate

Understanding By Design:
Understanding By Design Unit Checklist (Draft)

Performance Assessments:
The Reading & Writing Project: Common-Core-Aligned Performance Assessments
NYC Department of Education: Tasks, Units, & Student Work
News Editor Performance Task
News Editor Task Checklist and Rubric